If all they are going to let casuals get is garbage than they have decided they dont need casual subscription money. If there is nothing but raids and dungeons then people will unsub quickly.
Lower gear for world content is how the game has been for almost its entire existence.
The aberrations were in Legion/BfA with Titanforging, but you guys act like THE ONLY THING THAT HAS EVER MATTERED IN WOW is titanforged gear from world quests, even though that was a tiny sliver of the game’s lifespan.
What on earth were you people doing back in the days of classic, where all you could do is farm hundreds of bug parts for a green ring? Or BC or Wrath, where you capped out at blues from a rep vendor?
I think the raid comment just feels attacked constantly because they are the minority and fear Blizzard leaning more towards casual players in the future.
People have sunk years even decades into playing this game, its a pretty scary thought to think next exp or the one after that they will do away what you enjoy about it, and in response attack content they arent really into and hope their loud vocal minority voice on the forums is enough to change Blizzard.
Blizzard doesnt base its business decisions in forum warfare, it uses the subscription metrics and data from whos playing what content most.
Some of you are just angry, probably lonely and only here stir up conflict in order to feel apart of something.
But you are already apart of something, the WoW community, attacking each other just makes it smaller and smaller. Some of you dont even have an argument or construct counter point its just negative responses without substance.
If you need a friend, try putting down the aggression and you’ll find many friends who accept you right here in the WoW community.
ZM achievement data shows that the portion of players who don’t do group content don’t actually care about power. Not even a free legendary was enough to get them to even finish the campaign.
The criteria was “best gear from solo content” and aside from having to jump through hoops for a weapon or pray to RNGesus every two weeks when the right Warfront was up (incidentally, also a source of heroic quality gear) then SL loses to BfA categorically.
You’d have to go back to Legion, except Legion still had Titanforging. Legion still had scaling WQ rewards, including easy PvP gear from Warden Towers. And Legion had some of the most PUG friendly content too, I don’t think anyone would be grumbling about raids if the bosses were as forgiving as all of Emerald Nightmare or literally every one in Antorus except Sisters and maybe Aggramar.